23 Therefore I hope to send him soon after my situation is resolved.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I, myself, shall also come shortly.
25 Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, who is my brother and companion in labor, fellow soldier, your messenger, and he who ministered to my necessity.
26 For he longed after you all and was filled with heaviness, because you heard that he was sick.
27 Indeed he was sick, near death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him, but also on me, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.
28 Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, that when you see him again, you may rejoice and I may be less sorrowful.
29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy. And hold such ones in high regard,